I'm using VL7 b1.8 on my new Sempron computer. When I try to start Midnight Commander as root, it doesn't load. When I tried xterm -e mc, I got this message:root:# xterm -e mcWarning: Tried to connect to session manager, Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed

I don't understand the message and I certainly don't know what to do about the problem. I can start Thunar as root.

On the new computer I installed VL6 SOHO Deluxe a couple of days ago. It offers the proprietary NVidia driver and I got a very nice 1280x1024 screen, which is the native resolution of the monitor. In VL7 b1.8 or VL7 b1 I get a badly distorted GUI screen in the wrong aspect ratio and the best I've been able to do is 1024x768 with the VESA driver. I suspected the problem would be fixed with the proprietary NVidia driver, but it's not included with VL7 so far.

I see mention of beta 2. Are we supposed to be testing that? Also, will the proprietary NVidia drivers be included in VL7 at some point? I'm very unhappy with 1024x768.--GrannyGeek

It seems gdm is wired to open only xfce4. No matter how I set to open fluxboxonly xfce4 will open. /etc/X11/xinit/@xinit.rc points to xinitrc.fluxbox,~/.xinitrc ends: "exec /usr/bin/startfluxbox", xwmconfig is set to open fluxbox,yet gdm will only open xfce4 even when last session was fluxbox. There isnaturally no provision in gdm to open fluxbox which is part of the install.

If I use xdm insted of gdm fluxbox does open as first choice. If I set @xinitrc topoint to xinitrc.xfce xfce4 will open, however, flush drives cannot be mounted by user.

Open query to VL community & Esp development "team" -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Users : Shouldn't any bug reports address only latest BETA version ?(Seems obvious - earlier versions *may* now be redundant)

Older versions -post as help request in own new thread------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please consider, below has been mentioned before: w/scant official consensus:

~ Development is AD-HOC~ VL is now how old -w/still no *FORMAL* method adopted to report/fix bugs

Just got back after three weeks away and eagerly downloaded beta 1.10 for a try out. Still no joy with the text installer on my IBM p4 or Compaq P3, the machines just lock up a few seconds after the uncompressing the kernel message. I'm not sure if it's relevant, but it misses out the "loading init.lz" stage which appears in the GUI installer. Am I the only one having problems with the text installer or am I the only one using it?!

Installation with the GUI installer went off OK. The screen resoluton was set rather low (800x600) but could be adjusted after logging in. The login screen is changed from earlier betas and looks less attractive now, especially as it was displayed at a low resolution (for me). Incidentally, the installer identified the iso as Beta2, not 1.10 as downloaded.

It's good to see the number of installed apps steadily increasing, along with the expanding reps. But I couldn't successfully load the extras rep from any of the sources I tried - is it supposed to be active yet? Testing and patches worked OK though. I tried quite a few of the pre-installed apps and installed others using Gslapt so I'll just note what didn't work for me.

Clicking Help in the menu opened the browser but it couldn't find the target page.

Streamtuner installed OK but it's set to use xmms as the default music player, so it gives an error message when attempting to play a stream. It's easy to change it to audacity in the settings, but it's better not to have to.

htop has a missing dependency, ncurses>=5.7 and lyx has one too, util-linux-ng>=2.18

Streamtuner installed OK but it's set to use xmms as the default music player, so it gives an error message when attempting to play a stream. It's easy to change it to audacity in the settings, but it's better not to have to.

htop has a missing dependency, ncurses>=5.7 and lyx has one too, util-linux-ng>=2.18

CheersAndy

It seem there is no way to change the default music player for streamtuner at compile time...if you know there way I am gladly to re-build streamtuner again.As for lyx, I build it using VL7B2 version and I believe util-linux-ng come default with it...

Not sure where to do that these days as the usual package news and updates section is not being updated. If there's somewhere special for VL7 packages I'll be happy to post there.

Cheers

Sorry, I won't be able to post everything that was done (there was just too many to catch up and I didn't have access to post to that thread at the time) but here are the links to ad your comments to lyx and streamtuner.

Not sure where to do that these days as the usual package news and updates section is not being updated. If there's somewhere special for VL7 packages I'll be happy to post there.

Cheers

Sorry, I won't be able to post everything that was done (there was just too many to catch up and I didn't have access to post to that thread at the time) but here are the links to ad your comments to lyx and streamtuner.

I don't think they can. The VL package board I believe is set to be visible only to those at Packager level or up. I see where you are going with this and tend to agree it would be far more efficient not to have to re-post each package to make it visible to the community. I think the rational behind it is that any package posted on the packagers board is not yet available in the repository. It is not until it is actually available that it get's posted a second time for full visibility.

htop has a missing dependency, ncurses>=5.7 and lyx has one too, util-linux-ng>=2.18

A number of these dependency issues have been taken care of by a script that uelsk8s wrote. However, you will have to clear and reupdate your repository in gslapt before you will avoid the error.

To do so, in gslapt go to edit-preferences and click the button to delete "cached package files" then click update in gslapt. This should take care of the problem if not please report directly to me by pm as many packages at this point do not have a thread.Thanks;stretch'